Category: North America

At least two successive waves of online attacks blocked multiple major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for many users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr and Reddit. The first attacks appear to have begun around 7:10 am Friday, then resolved towards 9:30 am, but then a fresh wave began. The […]

A former National Security Agency contractor amassed at least 500 million pages of government records, including top-secret information about military operations, by stealing documents bit by bit over two decades, the Justice Department alleged in a court filing submitted Thursday. Prosecutors in August arrested and charged Harold “Hal” Martin III,of Glen Burnie, Md., with theft of […]

A California man convicted of attempting to help a friend travel to the Middle East to fight on behalf of Islamic State was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday, federal prosecutors said. Muhanad Badawi, 25, was found guilty of providing “material support” to the militant group in the form of his recruit, Nader […]

It’s difficult to serve in the military – feel a deep sense of community and meaning in your life then get out and discover no one cares. Trump has and does make flippant remarks that are borderline insulting and ignorant about service members. This bothered me – and still does. I understand what he meant […]

A Kansas man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in prison for helping a would-be jihadist’s unsuccessful plan to plant what they thought was a bomb at Fort Riley Army base. Alexander Blair, 29, also was sentenced to two years of supervised probation. He was accused of loaning $100 to 21-year-old John T. Booker Jr. […]

San Francisco police are hunting for four suspects after a shooting sent a school into lockdown in the city’s Excelsior District Tuesday, sending waves of panic through parents and students. Police said at least three students were shot at June Jordan School for Equity at 325 La Grande Ave. as school was dismissed for the day. San […]

According to ABC News, David Michael Ansberry a 64-year-old man was arrested in connection with a bomb being placed outside of the Nederland Police Station on Oct 11. A police officer discovered the backpack outside of the small police station and brought it inside. An explosive device was found after police searched the backpack, which was later detonated by the […]

A top State Department official allegedly “pressured” the FBI to downgrade the classification of one of Hillary Clinton’s emails as part of a “quid pro quo,” according to documents released by the bureau on Monday. The accusation of such an arrangement came from an interview the FBI conducted with an official in its records management […]

Beall said the three were planning to bomb an apartment complex and mosque in Garden City occupied by a Muslim community of about 120 Somali refugees. Beall said the men planned to carry out the attack on Nov. 9, the day after Election Day. He said the men stockpiled a large cache of firearms, and ammunition. Read […]

(Please understand that at the time of this writing Tom Greer is indeed still living) It is with a profane sorrow that I push this essay to the editor of SOFREP. I seize the opportunity to further a personal agenda of mine. It did truly catch up with me eventually, the pain of the loss […]

This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin? (The […]

The CEO of Backpage.com, Carl Ferrer, was arrested last week on charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to do the same.  Backpage has long been used as a vehicle for human traffickers to advertise their product (both children and adults) to johns.  Before Backpage, Craigslist was the major hub for domestic human trafficking […]